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Figure 4.24
Kuala Lampur, Malaysia.
The Petronas Towers. When the Pretronas were completed in
1998, they were the tallest buildings in the world. They were overtaken by Taipei 101 in 2004,
which in turn was dwarfed by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010.
© Alexander B. Murphy.
courts, begin to look the same even though they are sep-
arated by thousands of miles.
The third dimension of cultural landscape conver-
gence is the wholesale borrowing of idealized landscape
images across the world. As you study the cultural landscape,
you may notice landscape features transplanted from one
place to another—regardless of whether the landscape fea-
ture even “fi ts.”
The strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, represents an
extreme case of this tendency, with various structures
designed to evoke different parts of the planet. The popu-
lar Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas replicates the
Italian city of Venice, including canals. The Las Vegas
Sands Corporation, a casino developer and owner, built
the Venetian Hotel and Casino across the Pacifi c from Las
Vegas in Macao in 2007. The port city of Macao was once
